There is a group of boulders on the track between Marley and Wattomolla in the Royal National Park, Sydney. Whenever I move through that place I am overcome with a sense of ‘home.’ It is hard to describe. I will sit there and wonder at the feeling and try to name it, but it seems […]

‘A Pattern Language’ can inspire on most pages, yet here I am struck by the beautiful simplicity of the maxim under pattern 208, that ‘the process of gradual stiffening [in the building and selection of materials of a structure]… is the physical and procedural embodiment of this essential principle.’ What principle is that? That ‘details […]

The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learned, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the […]